the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
Hannah Arendtif we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
Hannah ArendtOur Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.
Hannah ArendtThe conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
Hannah Arendt